"Greenspun's Tenth Rule of Programming: any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc informally-specified bug-ridden slow implementation of half of Common Lisp."

-- Philip Greenspun

#Bugs Quotes #Half Quotes #Common Quotes

“We'd make love. Afterwards he would take photographs of me. (On modeling for Alfred Stieglitz)”
“They will listen with both ears to what is said by the men just a step or two ahead of them, who stand nearest to them, and within arm's reach. A guide ceases to be of any use when he strides so far ahead as to be hidden by the curvature of the earth.”

Source : George Iles (1917). “Choosing Books”
“The individual couldn't find any attention in Italy.”
“Racing is dangerous, but I've been in a lot worse situations as a pipe fitter.”
“Since Obama has expressed admiration for the portrait of Abraham Lincoln that Doris Kearns Goodwin paints in Team of Rivals, he could do the 16th president one better: He should name Hillary Clinton as his running mate in 2012. That would be both needed change and audacious.”

Source : "Obama-Clinton ticket for 2012" by Douglas Wilder, www.politico.com. August 2, 2010.
“A day spent praising the earth and lamenting man's pollutionist history makes you feel like a superior, sensitive soul.”
“I think if you work in television everyday, and you must be privy to everything happening in television, then do so.”

Source : Source: www.broadwayworld.com
“I think people want success, you know, and I'm the captain.”

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